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dc.contributor.authorKhan, Md Farid Uddin
dc.contributor.supervisorAssoc. Prof. Ruhul Salim
dc.contributor.supervisorEmer. Prof. Harry Bloch
dc.contributor.supervisorDr Nazrul Islam
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T10:12:17Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T10:12:17Z
dc.date.created2016-02-26T05:34:19Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1736
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This thesis computes and decomposes productivity changes and investigates the effect of research and development (R&D) expenditure on productivity growth in Australian broadacre agriculture. The empirical results indicate slower TFP growth, driven by declining growth in technical change and find a cointegrated and causal relationship between public R&D and productivity growth. With R&D spending seen to increase agricultural productivity significantly, impact variations across states emerged as important to public R&D policy development in Australian agriculture.

dc.languageen
dc.publisherCurtin University
dc.titleProductivity Growth and R&D Spending in Australian Broadacre Agriculture: Empirical Analyses by Using Alternative Approaches
dc.typeThesis
dcterms.educationLevelPhD
curtin.departmentSchool of Economics and Finance
curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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